Hallo Tino, > > But that may be a weird and complex way-of-thinking that is > affecting > > only me :-/ > > Nope, I tend to think like that as well. :-|
OK, let's not waste anoybody's time with above "phylosophycal" matters... ;-) > The short answer is: You cannot account for single host disk > usage because of pooling. Thanks for stating one of my unwritten thoughts. I was considering that issue too, but I also thought: "if I do 'du -sh' I get the *real* occupation for that directory", thus I could be accounting on that base... > Suppose, you've got three hosts, all with the same operating > system. All common files will be in the pool only once. And > they will get hardlinked every time you do a full backup. [cut] I'm backing up only user data directories (in fact, I'm backing up the shares of customers' servers), thus I can't imagine there will be many hardlinks. Nevertheless, I'm seeing that the only value that may be considered is the one shown in the "Host Summary" page. [cut] > My advice: Just account on total amount of data backed up. > And this is the number you get in the host summary page as > "Full Size(GB)" and in host status page in the "File > Size/Count Reuse Summary" table in "Totals" column - here you > can also see the pooling effects nicely. As I stated above, I think I will be accounting like you're suggesting to: "Host Summary" page will have to be enough, for me and for my customers. Thanks for sharing thoughts! Regards, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: fla...@piramide.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/